The first is from former PhD student Zhiru Liu @zzzhiru.bsky.social (now in @bengrbm.bsky.social's group @ MSK) examining the long-term patterns of selective constraint – measured by the classical ratio of nonsynonymous to synonymous mutations (dN/dS) – within recombining populations of bacteria.
It also required an amazing set of deep collaborations: particularly @daniel-decarvalho.bsky.social
(whose work motivated a lot of our thinking) and John Lacava who went all in for this work with their great labs and colleagues.
Trying to answer these questions required a theoretical framework at the intersection of physics, machine learning and evolutionary dynamics that our lab most enjoys - led by Petr Šulc, long-time collaborators at Ecole Normale in Paris, and our amazing lab at @mskcancercenter.bsky.social
Early registration rates end this coming Monday for #mDNASRC. Join your colleagues in beautiful Porto alongside organizers like @bengrbm.bsky.social. Save your space: buff.ly/P6hZjQz